Cloud Data Engineer

Accenture UK & Ireland
Leeds
3 weeks ago
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Cloud Data Engineer – Accenture UK & Ireland

Location: Leeds, UK.


Salary: Competitive Salary + Package (dependent on experience).


Career Levels: Specialist & Associate Manager.


We have exciting opportunities for a Cloud Data Engineer to join our Data & AI practice, part of a larger Cloud First Group. We deliver scalable, business‑critical and end‑to‑end solutions for our client – from data strategy/governance to Core Engineering, enabling them to transform and work in Cloud Technologies.


You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.


Responsibilities

  • Digest data requirements, gather and analyse large‑scale structured data and validate by profiling in a data environment.
  • Design and develop ETL patterns/mechanisms to ingest, analyse, validate, normalise and clean data.
  • Implement data‑quality procedures on data sources and preparation to visualise data and synthesise insights for business value.
  • Support data‑management standards and policy definition including synthesising and anonymising data.
  • Develop and maintain data‑engineering best practices and contribute to data‑analytics insights and visualisation concepts, methods and techniques.

Qualifications & Skills

  • Palantir (Must Have)
  • Python
  • PySpark / PySQL
  • AWS or GCP

Set Yourself Apart

  • Palantir Certified Data Engineer
  • Certified Cloud Data Engineering (preferably AWS)

Benefits

At Accenture, you will receive a competitive basic salary and an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and three extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice. Flexibility and mobility are required as you will need to spend time onsite with our clients and partners.


About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialised capabilities across more than 40 industries, powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises.


Equal Opportunity Employer

Accenture is an equal‑opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.


Closing Date

Closing Date for Applications: 28/11/25. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.


Other Details

  • Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior
  • Employment Type: Full‑time
  • Job Function: Information Technology
  • Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting


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